By Marianna Cooper <[email protected]>  As I started my junior year in high school, my older brother Nick started college. Nick is my only sibling and in his absence, I’ve experienced what...

By Hilite Staff It’s ironic that tragedy always seems to bring people closer together. This remains true in the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. A country which already sat in the ravage...

By Emma Neukam <[email protected]> Another convocation. Another speaker with a heartwarming message. That’s all I thought Sarah Panzau, a guest speaker who travels the country recounting the...

I could not agree more with the Staff Perspective from the 1/29 issue (“Senate should consider alternate charities for Dance Marathon proceeds”). My older kids participated in CDM, and one was on the...

By Hilite Staff Last year, this school, with around 900 dancers, raised nearly $160,000 for Riley Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis during Carmel Dance Marathon (CDM), a staggering number that,...

By Michelle Hu <[email protected]>  Last semester, I wrote a paper analyzing a societal trend for my senior AP English class, and the research I did for it has convinced me that in order to be...

By Steven Chen <[email protected]> We have just left a decade without a definite name to refer back to.  In 1963, a New Yorker writer with sure prescience suggested “Twenty oh-oh,” “a...

By Cassie Dugan <[email protected]>  New Year’s Day you would have found me curled up on the couch, eyes pried open, watching “Criminal Minds” for 13 consecutive hours. Creepy? Maybe....

By Min Qiao <[email protected]>  When I was first introduced to coffee, I was overwhelmed by its rich, smooth aroma, and since then, I have always been coffee’s biggest fan. As a child, I drank...

By Hera Ashraf <[email protected]> On Nov. 5, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, opened fire at a military base at Fort Hood, killing 13 people, according to CNN reports. Immediately,...